Yachting World

Published by TI Media Limited Yachting World is world's leading international yachting magazine. From ocean racing and blue water cruising to the most glamorous super-yachts, Yachting World has the very best in nautical writing and stunning photography, with up-to-the-minute technical reports, race analysis, new boat tests and much more.

SEEING THE FUTURE

CARLO BORLENGHI • PHOTOGRAPHER 1956-2026

Has Cowes Week bounced back?

Big Starlink changes for cruisers

Ocean eclipse

Keel damage capsizes Oyster

Pace fastest Round Britain and Ireland

Brits’ first female Cup crew

New guidance for lithium installations

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Yachting World • ESTABLISHED 1894 • VOLUME 177 • ISSUE NO 3417

MATTHEW SHEAHAN • THE TWO THINGS NO SAILOR EVER HAS ENOUGH OF ARE TIME AND MONEY. SO WHAT’S THE MAGIC BALANCE TO CREATING A SUCCESSFUL REGATTA?

NIKKI HENDERSON • IS SAILING A SPORT? A HOBBY? A WAY OF SEEING THE WORLD? OF COURSE IT CAN BE ALL OF THESE THINGS – SAILING IS A BROAD CHURCH

ROUTES OF THE WORLD • JIMMY CORNELL HAS SPENT HALF A CENTURY SAILING AND MAPPING THE GLOBE – HE SHARES HOW BLUEWATER CRUISING AND OCEAN ROUTING HAS CHANGED

IN THE DARK

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AMONG THE ATOLLS • A TESTING INDIAN OCEAN PASSAGE REWARDS KATE ASHE-LEONARD WITH TWO OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CRUISING DESTINATIONS ON EARTH: MALDIVES AND CHAGOS

FEELING THE HEAT • THIS YEAR’S GLOBAL WEATHER IS BEING DOMINATED BY A ‘SUPER EL NIÑO’ – BUT HOW WILL IT AFFECT SAILORS? DR ELIZABETH ALBERTS REPORTS

STEM THE TIDE • AN ALUMINIUM CRUISER FROM WORKBOAT BUILDERS IN ITALY? WE SAIL THIS MODERN DESIGN TO SEE WHICH SAILORS IT SUITS

CNB 62 • BLENDING SUPERYACHT DNA WITH OWNER-OPERATOR EASE, CAN THE CNB 62 OFFER CRUISING LUXURY WITH REWARDING PERFORMANCE?

LOOKS MATTER

OFF THE HOEK • THE REBEL DESIGNER REWRITING THE STYLE RULEBOOK, ANDRE HOEK, TALKS TO KIERAN FLATT

J CLASS REVIVAL

HOEK’S GREATEST HITS

REDEFINING ‘GRAND’ • GRAND SOLEIL’S NEW FLAGSHIP MARKS A BOLD MOVE FOR THIS MAINSTAY PRODUCTION YARD INTO THE SPHERE OF SEMI-CUSTOM ‘SMALL SUPERYACHTS’, ALL IN TRUE ITALIAN STYLE. TOBY HODGES REPORTS

LAST SHOT • Golden hour for the Y9 Bella at this year’s Superyacht Cup Palma Richard Mille. The 30th anniversary event was a sell out, with 24 entries — the largest fleet in almost two decades — including six YYachts racing in their own class.

NEW GEAR • HOW TOP SAILING KIT STANDS UP TO 35,000 MILES OF WEAR

NEW YACHTS • RACE BOAT SHAPES MAKE THESE FAST CRUISERS POTENT, SAYS RUPERT HOLMES

SPECIAL REPORT • RUPERT HOLMES ON LA RÉUNION

EXTRAORDINARY BOATS • SEAN MCNEILL ON WHIRLWIND II

5 EXPERT TIPS • DAISY COLLINGRIDGE ON HANDLING ALL CONDITIONS

TAKING OWNERSHIP • WILL BRUTON ON DOUBLE-HANDED OPTIONS

I DID IT • Matt Smith kept a motorboat on the River Trent. A corporate sailing weekend on the Solent 11 years ago changed that. He came home and sold the motorboat, having been sailing exactly once.

GETTING INSURED: WHAT TO KNOW • “Not many insurance companies like to insure short-handed sailors,” points out Nigel Colley, “even though their accident and claims rate is lower than the fully crewed boats.”

THREE TO CONSIDER

WEATHER BRIEFING • SIMON ROWELL ON TROPICAL REVOLVING STORMS

WORLD’S COOLEST YACHTS • WE ASK TOP SAILORS AND MARINE INDUSTRY GURUS TO CHOOSE THE COOLEST AND MOST INNOVATIVE YACHTS OF OUR TIMES